Complete genome sequence of Desulfarculus baarsii type strain (2st14T)

Hui Sun, Stefan Spring, Alla Lapidus, Karen Davenport, Tijana Glavina Del Rio, Hope Tice, Matt Nolan, Alex Copeland, Jan-Fang Cheng, Susan Lucas, Roxanne Tapia, Lynne Goodwin, Sam Pitluck, Natalia Ivanova, Ioanna Pagani, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Galina Ovchinnikova, Amrita Pati, Amy Chen, Krishna Palaniappan, Loren Hauser, Yun-Juan Chang, Cynthia D. Jeffries, John C. Detter, Cliff Han, Manfred Rohde, Evelyne Brambilla, Markus Göker, Tanja Woyke, James Bristow, Jonathan A. Eisen, Victor Markowitz, Philip Hugenholtz, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Hans-Peter Klenk, Miriam Land

Abstract


Desulfarculus baarsii (Widdel 1981) Kuever et al. 2006 is the type and only species of the genus Desulfarculus, which represents the family Desulfarculaceae and the order Desulfarculales. This species is a  mesophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium with the capability to oxidize acetate and fatty acids of up to 18 carbon atoms completely to CO2. The acetyl-CoA/CODH (Wood-Ljungdahl) pathway is used by this species for the complete oxidation of carbon sources and autotrophic growth on formate. The type strain 2st14T was isolated from a ditch sediment collected near the University of Konstanz, Germany. This is the first completed genome sequence of a member of the order Desulfarculales. The 3,655,731 bp long single replicon genome with its 3,303 protein-coding and 52 RNA genes is a part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project.

doi:10.4056/sigs.1243258

 


Keywords


obligate anaerobic; sulfate reduction; Wood-Ljungdahl pathway; freshwater sediment; Deltaproteobacteria; Desulfarculaceae; GEBA

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Acknowledgements

We would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of many members of the Genomic Standards Consortium, the broader genomic science community, and those who have indicated their willingness to serve as editors, reviewers and contributors.

Funding for SIGS is provided by a grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Michigan State University, the Michigan State University Foundation, and the US Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research DE-FG02-08ER64707.

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